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2011 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Hound Ears Results

Narc — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:27:16 +0000

The 2011 Triple Crown Bouldering Series got underway last weekend¹ at Hound Ears, North Carolina, an area open to climbing but one day a year for the Triple Crown.

While the entire Triple Crown is more about raising awareness for access issues and offering a competitive but still fun environment for the community as a whole, I always find it interesting to note who is winning the Open division throughout the series. The main question in my mind leading into this year’s series was could anybody dethrone Jimmy Webb, winner of the last eight Triple Crown events and reigning 3 time overall champion. The answer is that we’ll never know since Webb decided not to compete this year.

This left things wide open for Illinois transplant Brad Weaver to win the Men’s Open division while two time defending Women’s overall champ Kasia Pietras continued her domination by winning the women’s event.

Hound Ears Women’s Open Results	Hound Ears Men’s Open Results
Kasia Pietras 7,609 Isabelle Faus 7,183 Leanna Lockhart 3,359	Brad Weaver 13,128 Nate Draughn 12,508 Andrew Palmer 11,373

Full Results

DPM was on hand for the event, and they compiled this report to go along with this video. There’s also a large gallery of images posted here.

Jimmy Webb and Brion Voges, who took 2nd in the overall standings each of the past two years, both didn’t compete in the comp, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t at Hound Ears taking advantage of the day. Freed from the pressure of focusing on filling out a comp scorecard they each established a new double digit problem, both of which you can see in this video.

Update: In his latest blog post Webb indicates that he will in fact compete in the remaining events.

Albeit a day late due to some inclement weather on Saturday which forced the event to be postponed for a day ↩

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Registration Open For 2011 Triple Crown Bouldering Series

Narc — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:36:22 +0000

Via Rockcreek’s blog comes word that registration is now open for the 2011 Triple Crown Bouldering Series. The series will once again feature stops at Hound Ears, NC, Horse Pens 40, AL and the Stone Fort, TN. There are some changes worth noting, however:

PLEASE NOTE: THE DATES FOR THIS YEAR’S COMPETITION HAVE CHANGED. Be sure to register early, since the event is going to fill up fast, and PLEASE show up on the correct days! Dates are, as follows:

October 1: HOUND EARS

October 8: STONE FORT / LRC

November 5: HORSE PENS 40

More Big News: This year, Montlake golf course has coordinated with Triple Crown and is planning to close the relevant fairway for the Stone Fort leg of the competition, which means up to 50 classic boulder problems — including Cloud Nine, King Cobra, and the 45 Degree Wall — will be available for the first time. Triple Crown will be the one chance this year that you can climb these problems!

Full details on how to register are on the Triple Crown’s website.

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2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Stone Fort Results

Narc — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:05:47 +0000

The final stop of the 2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series took place last weekend at a soggy Stone Fort outside Chattanooga, TN. In addition to the normal difficulties associated with trying to climb your 10 hardest problems within the course of the day competitors were faced with wet topouts and conditions that became dangerous to the point that comp organizers were forced to end the event a bit early. The day was not a waste, however, as many boulders did get climbed and a pair of familiar names once again topped the field.

Not deterred by an injured finger Jimmy Webb continued his domination of the Triple Crown running his streak of victores on the circuit to 8 and capturing his 3rd straight overall title. For the women it was much the same with Kasia Pietras taking the win at The Stone Fort and capturing her 2nd straight overall series title.

Not mentioned in any of the results is Daniel Woods who made the trip out for the comp and nabbed quick sends of The Shield (V12), The Chattanoogan (V12) and Flying High (V11) according to his 8a scorecard.

Here are the final results for the Open divisions with full results available at the Triple Crown’s website.

Stone Fort Women’s Open Results	Stone Fort Men’s Open Results
Kasia Pietras 8,292 Holly McMullen 7,926 Isabelle Faus 7,125	Jimmy Webb 15,372 Brion Voges 14,438 Senya Iaryguine 10,062

Triple Crown 2010 Women’s Open	Triple Crown 2010 Men’s Open
Kasia Pietras 20,855 Isabelle Faus 18,333 Holly McMullen 17,825 Leanna Lockhart 14,815 Angie Payne 8,525	Jimmy Webb 43,312 Brion Voges 39,186 Senya Iaryguine 25,345 Brad Weaver 25,147 Taylor Pritchard 13,820

Check out Adam Johnson’s website for a nice gallery of pictures from the comp.

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2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: HP40 Results

Narc — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:45:29 +0000

The second leg of the 2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series went down Saturday at Alabama’s Horse Pens 40 with a pair of familiar names standing atop the podiums when the day was done. For the men Jimmy Webb continued his dominance of the Triple Crown running his streak of victories on the circuit to 7. For the women a non-local won for the 2nd straight year with Angie Payne making the trip out from Colorado to nab the victory.

Full results have yet to be posted on the Triple Crown website, but look for them in the near future. Until then enjoy photos on DPM’s site as well as these photos on Climbing’s site from photographer Adam Johnson.

Horse Pens 40 Women’s Open Results	Horse Pens 40 Men’s Open Results
Angie Payne – 8,525 Kasia Pietras – 6,455 Isabelle Faus – 5,759	Jimmy Webb – 15,417 Brion Voges – 14,777 Brad Weaver – 12,751

Update: Brad Weaver has an update on his day at HP40 letting us know that he managed 7 double digit problems in his 3rd place effort

Update #2: Here’s a quick video from Saturday put together by George Evans

Update #3: Angie Payne’s recap of the event

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2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Hound Ears Results

Narc — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:59:10 +0000

The 2010 Triple Crown Bouldering Series kicked off last Saturday at Hound Ears, NC with a pair of familiar faces besting the field as last year’s overall Triple Crown winners Kasia Pietras and Jimmy Webb both started the 2010 edition of the series with victories. If you are scoring at home Webb has not lost a Triple Crown event since the 2008 Hound Ears comp where he took a close 2nd to Jon Glassberg (at least according to my count).

Here are the top 3 finishers for each of the open divisions. More results can be found on the Triple Crown website.

Hound Ears Women’s Open Results	Hound Ears Men’s Open Results
Kasia Pietras 6,108 Francesca Metcalf 5,928 Leanna Lockhart 5,765	Jimmy Webb 12,523 Brad Weaver 12,396 Brion Voges 9,971

Photo gallery by Matt Paden

Climbing.com writeup

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2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Little Rock City/Stone Fort Results

Narc — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:15:26 +0000

After a snow delay Saturday that forced climbers to find a way to pass the day without losing too much energy, the 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering series wrapped up on Sunday at Tennessee’s Stone Fort (AKA Little Rock City).

For the men, Jimmy Webb continued his domination of the Triple Crown series with a win at the Stone Fort that put the finishing touch on his second straight series victory. The women’s side was a bit closer with 6 time defending series champ Kate McGinnis winning the Stone Fort leg but falling short in the overall standings, finishing an impressive 3rd. McGinnis spent a portion of the fall sport climbing in Kalymnos, Greece and only participated in the last 2 events of the Triple Crown. Despite this she finished only 3,000 points behind overall series champ Kasia Pietras. Congratulations of course go out to Kasia for her series victory.

Here are the results from the Open divisions for both the Stone Fort comp and the overall Triple Crown:

Stone Fort Women’s Open Results	Stone Fort Men’s Open Results
Kate McGinnis 9,646 Alex Johnson 8,555 Kasia Pietras 8,322 Isabelle Faus 7,758 Francesca Metcalf 5,995	Jimmy Webb 17,401 Brion Voges 13,789 Jeremy Walton 13,306 Brad Weaver 12,157 John Hur 8,974

Triple Crown 2009 Women’s Open	Triple Crown 2009 Men’s Open
Kasia Pietras 21,577 Francesca Metcalf 18,907 Kate McGinnis 18,537 Isabelle Faus 17,822 Patti Newell 17,085	Jimmy Webb 43,022 Brion Voges 37,472 Brad Weaver 32,477 Jeremy Walton 25,287 Phillip Schaal 22,050

Check the Triple Crown website for full results in all categories.

Here are a few more Triple Crown related links. I will update this list as I find new links to share.

Comp video from DPM
Kate McGinnis’ comp weekend write-up that includes some pictures of snow day shenanigans
Large Climbing.com gallery
DPM write-up with a few nice pictures
Excellent pictures from the HP40 comp
Enter the 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series Photography Contest

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News & Notes – 11/17/2009

Narc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:11:55 +0000

For those that didn’t know, I spent the better part of the past 2 weeks in Hueco Tanks sampling some of the best boulder problems I’ve ever seen. I’ll have more to say about that later this week, but right now I’m simply trying to play catch up from all that I missed while away from a computer.

Here are a few links that caught my attention, if there is something you feel like I missed don’t hesitate to share it in the comments.

The 2009 Triple Crown event at HP40 took place with Jimmy Webb and Alex Puccio winning their respective Open categories. You can read various comp reports from climbers here, here, here, here or here. Combined results from the first 2 legs of the Triple Crown are here.
Fred Nicole’s Dreamtime (V14), one of the most famous boulder problems in the world, has broken.
The Access Fund partnered with Visa to launch the Access Fund Visa® affinity Platinum Rewards credit card. Looks like a cool way to support the Access Fund.
French climber Pierre Bollinger added a new 5.14 to Smith Rock, OR with his FA of Shoot’m Up (5.14b).
Alpinist Kelly Cordes has an excellent new blog with my favorite post so far being his discussion about how large of a rack to bring on a climb.
Kevin Jorgeson provides a 4th update on his and Tommy Caldwell’s progress on El Cap.
Max Zolotukhin has some free time on his hands and he’s started a blog. First topic on the agenda is an interesting debate over the best boulder problems in the country at each grade.
Alex Savage added a hard new problem to Black Mountain, CA
10 questions for Adam Ondra
5 questions for Andrew Kornylak
Splitter Choss is running a contest to see who has the most worn out Gri Gri with the prize being, of course, a new Gri Gri.
A nice review of the new La Sportiva TC Pro
Carlo Traversi and Mike McClure did the 4th and 5th ascents respectively of a recent James Litz addition to Joe’s Valley, The Masterpiece (V13ish). Here’s the video from each:

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2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Hound Ears Results

Narc — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:20:19 +0000

The 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering series kicked off this weekend with the annual competition at Hound Ears, NC. One of the more interesting aspects of these comps is simply seeing what climbers even show up. Last year’s Hound Ears event featured top 3 finishes on the women’s side by Alex Johnson, Kate McGinnis and Alex Puccio while the men’s side had top 3 finishes by Jon Glassberg, Jimmy Webb and Wills Young. Out of this group only Jimmy Webb returned to a top 3 finish at the 2009 edition of Hound Ears. Here is how the rest of the field shaped up:

Open Women

Sasha DiGiulian
Kasia Pietras
Francesca Metcalf

Open Men

Jimmy Webb
Brion Voges
Max Zolutukhin

It’s worth noting that Phil Schaal, fresh off a huge summer of hard sending, failed to crack the top 3*. It’ll be interesting to hear his thoughts on how the comp went.

Check out DPM for a nice write-up, a few pictures and more results from the comp.

*Thanks to the commenters who reminded me something I should have pointed out initially, namely that a) Phil finished 4th despite terrible skin and b) he was up against a field of climbers who have spent more time climbing at Hound Ears in recent years, a pretty big advantage in this type of competition.

Update: Thanks to Brad for pointing out this link to Jeff Zimmerman’s comp photo gallery

Update 2: Brion Voges’ report

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Climbing Video: “The Beta – Six Feet Under” – 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series Preview

Narc — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:30:17 +0000

The 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series is fast approaching and the hype machine is getting into high gear. To aid in getting people psyched for the comps, organizers have teamed up with Andrew Kornylak to produce a series of “Beta” videos of problems you’ll find on the Triple Crown circuit.

This 2nd video in the series features Brion Voges climbing the problems Instinct (V7) and Six Feet Under (V5) at The Stone Fort near Chattanooga, TN:

I think my favorite part about these videos, beyond the high production value, is that they do not consist solely of super hard problems. The problems in this video, as well as the previous video from Hound Ears, NC, are very attainable for the average climber. I don’t know about you, but I’m psyched to get out and try these problems (even if it won’t be during the actual Triple Crown).

Here is the full schedule for those thinking of trying to unseat last year’s Open champs Alex Johnson and Jimmy Webb:

2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series Schedule:

10/3 – Hound Ears, NC
11/7 – Horse Pens 40, AL
12/5 – Little Rock City The Stone Fort, TN

On a related note, one can now purchase the highly anticipated Five Ten Team 5.10 LE shoe that were used in this clip at various climbing shops and online retailers like RockCreek.com (who has the shoes for 10% off!). Word on the street is that they should be sized similar to your street shoe size, or the Dragons if you have a pair of those.

I got my pair in the mail yesterday and promptly ripped a hole in my toe trying to get them on. Your results may vary…

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2008 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: Little Rock City/Stone Fort Results

Narc — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:58:18 +0000

This weekend was the final installment of the 2008 Triple Crown Bouldering Series. After comps at Hound Ears in North Carolina and Horse Pens 40 in Alabama, it all came down to the comp at The Stone Fort (AKA Little Rock City) outside of Chattanooga, TN.

After a very close battle, Kate McGinnis is the series champ despite a strong 1st place finish at the SF comp by Alex Johnson.

Open – Women – Stone Fort Results

1. Alex Johnson 9,250

2. Kate McGinnis 9,075

3. Alex Puccio 8,213

Open – Women – Overall Results

1. Kate McGinnis 26,428

2. Alex Johnson 25,520

3. Alex Puccio 25,127

On the Men’s side, Jimmy Webb was crowned series champ after his 2nd event win of the series. As was pointed out in the comments, Jon Glassberg won the first event at Hound Ears. Sorry about that one Jon.

Open – Men – Stone Fort Results

1. Jimmy Webb 16,608

2. Jeremy Walton 15,653

3. Jon Glassberg 12,980

Open – Men – Overall Results

1. Jimmy Webb 40,422

2. Jon Glassberg 34,700

3. Carlo Traversi 29,816

Check out Deadpoint Mag for more results and some nice pictures.

The winner of the Access Fund Membership contest will be announced in the next day or so.

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